It is time to give away another Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and a Galaxy Gear smart watch!!!

To get an opportunity to win, you have between now and July the 31st, 2014 to enter. The rules are very simple and I’ll list them below. I was able to perform these contests because of the wonderful people at the Samsung Developers Program. I decided to hold off for a bit because my site was starting to look like a contest site, but I’m ready to go again. I wish everyone the best of luck.

Specific Rules for Entering the Next Contest

The Android app must run on any Android device

You can only submit 1 app

Within the app you must provide proof that you made it, by way of email

The app has to have been made since the beginning of the month of June 2014 if it is on the Android store

You can make the app using any tool (Eclipse, Android Studio, App Inventor, Cordova, etc.)

You must post a link to the apk file in the comments below ( Only on this Specific Page )

If you post the apk file on any other page on my site you won’t be qualified to win

You must post an email that I can contact you on in the comments. (I don’t care if it is a throw away as long as you use it in the app)

I will not contact you through this email unless you are the winner

I will announce the winner in a live YouTube broadcast (If you aren’t able to get through to me on that broadcast the prize goes to the 2nd place winner)

During the contest other strange events may force me to make changes to the above rules, but that isn’t expected

I wish you all the best in trying to win about $900 in prizes. I pay the shipping as well. This contest is open to anyone world wide as long as your country allows me to send electronics like this to you.

Feel free to share this contest with anyone you’d like, or just keep it all to yourself 🙂

Hi..
is the Youtube brodcast really necessary??
i’m just worrying that will be my sleeping time 😀
and how about people who has no internet connection in their home? they won’t be able to connect internet anytime they want.

I have a simple button tapping game called “Button Tap Challenge”. Of course i’d love to win the contest, but also, i’d love any feedback from you if you get to check it out, positive or negative. Thank you very much.

Hi Derek. Here is my app I’ll explain it a little bit.
Its a simple database where the user should introduce the basic data from the vehicles like brands, models, etc… and also you can take 6 pictures by taping the black rectangles in the UI. This process should be done usually at the moment the car reach the mechanical workshop (My workplace).

I would like to implement this in my workplace but I need to add more features in the future so it can become a really powerfull tool, I need to learn more though.

I tried all my best to make it look polished and professional as possible, it’s not 100% done but i’ll make sure to tell you when it’s in the AppStore, i’ll be more than happy to hear your feedback (super happy to get the Note3 :rolleyes: )

Hi Derek, I’ll explain some features of my app:
It’s an app create to be used in the place where I work (a mechanical workshop).
-Can save, delete & edit the basic data from a vehicle (Brand-model-ect).
-Since its needed to take pictures of the vehicle the app allow you to take this pictures by tapping the black rectangles in the “Add vehicle UI”.

I would like to add more features in the future some its can become a really powerfull tool in my work.

Maybe some of you have heard about Unturned, a free to play game from steam greenlight developed by a 16 years old Canadian guy (who turn 17 today !). The game is now the 4th most played game on Steam !
So, I decided to make an app about it, because there is a lot of things to know about this game. My app lists every item and crafting recipes in the game, as well as some guides to take a good start when you’re new to the game that I personnally wrote. There is also a Patch Notes section, so the users knows what are the last added things to the game quickly !

Okay, here is my very first android app. I have made it using your tutorials about fetching finance quotes from yahoo and parsing them. I had to call 2 APIs and for one I used XML parsing and for 2nd I used JSON parsing (I was implementing what I was learning). I am a complete newbie to app development.

It’s a minimal weather app, developed and tested on Nexus 5. I hope it will work properly on your device as well.

The main features included in the app are:
– Playback position memory. If you stop a video and come back again later it will start where you left off. Also you will get a progress indicator of videos that have been watched (Shown in screenshots)
– Bookmarks. You can add and remove bookmarks to videos that you want to watch later or save to watch again later.
– Articles. The app uses the RSS feed of your website to download the list of articles.

Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this contest. It really gave me the motivation to get off my butt and start learning Android programming. I’ve been interested in starting app development for awhile now but you know how it goes..sometimes lazy beats motivation.

I had been working on this app almost every single day for several hours a day since you announced the contest. I learned a ton about Android development and lots about Java too. I am a self-taught Python programmer for several years now and this was my first time dabbling with Java. Good thing it’s mostly the same as Python. I ended up rewriting the app from scratch 4 times as I learned more and more about Android development.

Here are some of the advanced things I had learned about while creating this app.

– Dynamically loading fragments (This app only uses a single activity and everything is fragments)
– SQLite Database Provider (Everything is stored in a database so the app loads quickly)
– Content Provider (All interaction with the database is done through a content provider)
– Intent Service (I had initially used an intent service to interface with the YouTube API. But have since changed to a Sync Adapter)
– Sync Adapter (I switched from using an Intent Service to a Sync Adapter to implement notifications when new videos are posted. Unfortunately the notifications feature isn’t working as intended and I don’t have much more time to work on the app before the deadline.)
– Cursor Adapter (All the grid views are loaded using a custom Cursor Adapter that interacts with the Content Provider)
– Navigation Drawer – (All navigation is done using a slide out drawer)
– And much much more…

If I have your blessing may I post the app to the Play Store as my first app ever? I didn’t want to post this app without your permission since it does interact with your property. Of course it would be completely free as well as ad-free since I wouldn’t be so presumptuous to make money off your efforts. Or if you’d prefer I could certainly donate all the source code to you to upload to the Play store. Or if you’d rather the app didn’t go on the Play store that’s totally understandable as well. I got what I wanted out of this app and that was learning a ton about Android development.

Wow thank you very much Jeff!!! I can’t wait to check it out. Yes feel free to post the app. Everything I do here is to try and help people. Feel free to sell it if you want. I won’t ask for any money. Good luck 🙂

It is a simple game for children. The app has help and about options to explain everything about the game. My email address is also in the about option.

Thanks
Manish

PS: Seeing your recent comments about health, I would like to send you a health article that I had written few months back. It would be beneficial for all readers and if you feel it is appropriate you can publish on your website. Please send me your contact email address. Thanks.

My app is called Easy Feeds, it is a Feed reader application.It is a tool to optimize the process of checking your favorite blogs and websites. keep track of the latest news in your area of interest: technology, movies, gaming, bussiness, fashion, etc.

In the process of making this app I had to implement, Sharedpreferences, NavigationDrawers, Viewpager, Fragments(obviously), JSON data parsing, etc. I basically used a google API to obtain the data I wanted in json format, then I just parse this data and show a lot of dynamic information.

This is a very dynamic app, everytime you use it you will find new things to read.

I have to thank you Derek Banas, the fact that I am able to develop such a mobile app like this is due to your first android tutorials, following these tutorials were the first step for me to get into android development. I also learned so many new things developing this app, thank you again for doing this contest.

The google play link is for everyone. The googledrive link is for you Derek, there you will find a special version with the email you require at the welcome screen and at the bottom of the main screen (next to the page number). In the google drive link there are also some screenshots of my app.

This app basically helps you learn foreign languages with a much better accuracy and speed. It is similar to flashcards, but you can add new words, delete words if you already learned them ( and this is on your android device so you don’t need to struggle with physical cards 🙂 )

In the Menu there is a “Sample”, and “Help” button to explain how the app works.
My contact info is in the “About”.

The app was inspired by your Android Studios and Address Book App tutorials. 🙂
Thank you for the opportunity and for your awesome tutorials!

Quick Info: I just noticed App Inventor has a bug where if the App is set to Portrait and you are using it Horizontally(you are lying down), whenever you click a button in my app the notifications are really small and the next screen also appears small. Just a heads up.

Hey Derek,
I made the classic peg board game found in mom and pop restaurants or where I first saw this game as a kid, inside Cracker Barrel. I’ve been learning java programming for a while now on my own with the help of your videos and other resources found on the internet and finally after 3 months of programming and figuring things out, I have a game that is ready to play. I wanted to do more but the deadline is today and I had to get what i could done. So here it is!